Word: mundelein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania, early-admissions applications increased 50% to help make the freshman class of 345 the biggest in the school's 102-year history. "Our applicant pool is up, the quality of students is up, and we're doing quite well," exults Martha Morris, admissions director at Chicago's Mundelein College...
...varied as the turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who struck down Cermak in Miami while trying to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Sean's fate seems to be Greeley's fantasy. He is ordained at St. Mary of-the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, the author's alma mater, in 1956, just two years after Greeley was. Greeley remembers being "very cautious, very conservative. I kept all the rules." So does Sean. Assigned to a black parish (unlike Greeley), he works himself to near collapse. A new archbishop sends the exhausted curate off to Rome to study the history of church marital theology, and Sean finds himself on the famous papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain...